Example sentences of "be [v-ing] [adv prt] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | POLICE in County Durham are stepping up the fight against crime after a wide ranging shake-up in senior personnel . |
| 2 | Civil war has been eating up the country for five years . |
| 3 | It might be very hard for Ireland to get five on the team , but the way things are shaping up the selectors will probably not care where the players come from . |
| 4 | We also pledge that when we are drawing up the membership of the commission we shall take into account his earlier suggestions about widening the membership . |
| 5 | As for Dieter Sims , I do n't know much about him except that he 's been building up the East German unit under Husband 's wing . |
| 6 | But I do n't know that actually killing a man because he 's been touching up the boys would altogether hang together as a motive . ’ |
| 7 | The usual south-east Londoners are hanging about the bus stop . |
| 8 | He handed her her jacket , which had been hanging on the back of her chair . |
| 9 | Ratners marketing director Simon de Mille says : ‘ We are speeding up the process . |
| 10 | De Burgh is speaking us very fairly and friendly , but both his hands are gathering up the borders round us . |
| 11 | Gallimard , meanwhile , are bringing out the correspondence between Picasso and Apollinaire , a monograph on Masson by Bernard Noël , and a study of Leonardo and Titian by David Rosand , provisionally entitled La trace de l'artiste . |
| 12 | In the former , all of X , Y , and Z are shown — the relationships between their changes are illustrated and one could estimate from it the ways in which the various terms in the equations are bringing about the changes . |
| 13 | ‘ The Klans are toning down the rhetoric to make themselves more palatable to Americans . |
| 14 | Say they just going for a walk , yeah , and you come across this , say this young kid has been climbing up the trees and hurt his leg , you 're the only person around , so you , you 've got to get help yeah , cos he 's losing a lot of blood , but you 've got to stop his blood same time as you 've got to get help , yeah , so what 's the priority , you just stay |
| 15 | Finally , as Pete had been opening out the canvas deck cover on a relaunched Fairline Fury while Ted paced the dock alongside , he 'd looked up at his employer and said , ‘ You really want to know ? ’ |
| 16 | Hundreds of kites have been brightening up the skies at a national kite festival . |
| 17 | This board of directors has just been spelling out the fact that we 're in big trouble ; we 're heavily in debt , we 're showing a … a net loss before taxation … we can barely afford this month 's wages bills , we ca n't meet half our orders … all that does n't just come blazing in overnight after an accident with the new singeing machine in the printing plant … ’ |
| 18 | Fran Bennett , CPAG director , suggests both major parties are softening up the public for more means-testing and fewer rights to universal benefits . |
| 19 | So that was why he 'd been in the club so often over the past few weeks — he 'd been checking out the lie of the land , assessing the place as a possible investment . |
| 20 | Ranchers are tearing down the rainforests to make hamburgers . |
| 21 | Swap too soon and the program takes over and performs some miracle that pulls the ass of the Despot you just abandoned out of the fire and next thing you know the secret police are banging down the doors and hauling you and your family off into the night and oblivion ; the machine thereupon promptly declares itself the winner and it 's back to that fucking cave again . |
| 22 | Mind you , I 've been keeping up the ice dance so all the canals are frozen and he ca n't get a match to fish , ’ joked Dave , who runs Midlands Angling Products . |
| 23 | He had been seeking out the spot on which his little brother was strangled and we had encountered the murderer there . |
| 24 | Anyone could have been looking out the window seeing them being cheap with the teddy boy . |
| 25 | Ruth swung her long tanned legs to the patio and sat up in the lounger where she had been soaking up the sun lasciviously for the past hour and irrationally telling herself that if Fernando Serra had really loved her he would n't have let her slip away from him so easily . |
| 26 | ‘ As a consequence of these deaths , the very highest levels have been cranking up the troops to find who did this . ’ |
| 27 | And Swindon are bouncing up the table into third now . |
| 28 | Small wonder that green products , halfway genuine or frankly fake , are filling up the supermarket shelves . |
| 29 | Our eyes , legs , and even our voice act as though we are living out the dream . |
| 30 | While Dixton House has been lapping up the attention , his jockey , Tom Morgan , has been having a hard time . |